• Breve@pawb.social
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    Maybe he should blame the guy who last negotiated such a bad trade deal, which would be… checks notes… Donald Trump during his first term! 🤦

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    I find the average atheist seems to be more familiar with the messages of the Bible than many of these people who claim to spend their Sundays studying it.

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      Out of curiosity I went to one once, I am not Christian and I never believed in the Bible.

      I don’t know if this how all churches do it but the one church I went to read the Bible in a manipulative way. Regardless of the book or its content, you cannot construct a narrative by selecting one or two verses from one book and another one or two verses from another book of the Bible. Sometimes the books aren’t even from the same testament.

      Any book should be read in whole, and any verse has a context that explains it.

      The same technique applied to anything be it a research paper or a comic will produce a false narrative.

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    I always find this imagery amusing. David is touted as this weak shepherd boy who is nearly defenseless in the face of this giant opponent. In reality, you’ve got someone who has trained to sling rocks with deadly accuracy. He’s basically the bronze age equivalent of a sniper, bro can send a 2 inch projectile at mach jesus straight for your dome.

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    not reading the bible is kind of essential to participate in this american prosperity gospel anti-poor pro-money religious bullshit.

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    You’re assuming that these people give a fuck about Christianity other than as a cudgel for beating people up.

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    The US has strategically used tariffs with great success over the last decades to get favorable pricing from Canada on everything from energy, softwood, potash, you name it. One item at a time, slowly, methodically they were able to bring down pricing. We have been giving the US extremely good prices, and now, because of Trump he has just flipped the board over and it’s time to restart.

    America will be far worse off than before this started, and this has leveled off the playing field again with Canada.

    As a Canadian I am thrilled.

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    Setting tariffs without accompanying trade negotiations is like starting a fight with someone by shooting yourself, unless of course the goal is xenophobia and isolationism instead of equitable trade.